Sentence examples for tanker left from inspiring English sources

SHORTLY after the Selayang, a Malaysian tanker, left Port Dickson in the Malacca Strait last month, she was boarded by pirates who took her crew hostage and re-routed her round the southern end of Borneo.

But not for long: leviathans with twice that capacity are on their way.A far greater stir had been caused some 50 years earlier when the Ideal-X, an oil tanker left over from the second world war, berthed at Newark, New Jersey.

One of the most dramatic was discovered 50 years ago when Malcom McLean, a American trucking magnate, reinforced the decks of the Ideal-X, an oil tanker left over from the second world war, and loaded it with 58 large metal boxes containing goods that would normally have travelled as loose cargo.

"The tanker left and is now in international waters," Mohammad Hitab, a spokesman for the state-run al Waha Oil Company, told Reuters.

On Tuesday, a group called the Petroleum Defense Guards completed its first successful international oil sale against Tripoli's will, when a North Korean tanker left the seized port of Es Sider with a $38-million 38-millionrude oil.

Usually one tanker leaves the massive BP refinery in Coryton every three minutes.

Yet the government is unable to control the turbulent country's lucrative oil trade, and last week's removal of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan — after he failed to stop the "Morning Glory" tanker leaving from a rebel-held port — poses a new threat to Libya's stability.

A convoy of eight tankers left the plant with the drivers waving at the cheering demonstrators.

Within minutes the first tankers left the refinery and headed for petrol stations.

On Thursday night 150 road tankers left Baghdad for Basra to alleviate the fuel crisis in the city.

Toward the end of June, two oil tankers left Ceyhan, in Turkey, carrying the first legal shipment of Iraqi oil since the war.